"Cai Ting can send troops," Han Jiang said from the side.

The Western Xia sent 300,000 troops, and the entire rear army was empty, including Tiandu Mountain. Now that the 5,000 cavalry dispatched by Tiandu Mountain has made Wang Ju fall again, Cai Ting can't hesitate any longer.

"And ...... the day after tomorrow?"

Wang Ju nodded.

He asked again, "How is Yonghe Village?" ”

"It's fine over there."

The situation in Yonghe Village is now more strange, and the innermost part is Yonghe Village itself, which has nearly a thousand strong people. But now they're not afraid. Besides, there is food and weapons in the village, what to worry about.

The second is the 10,000 soldiers and horses on the periphery, and they are the worst. Because they were surrounded by the Song army outside layer by layer, they couldn't even cut a piece of wood to bake a fire. If it weren't for the fact that there was a stream at the foot of their camp, there would have been no water to drink.

And at noon, because of the lack of food, Xia Jun began to slaughter horses.

Horses are more human than oxen, and as cavalrymen, horses are their most loyal companions. Someone was slaughtering a horse, and the owner of the horse was crying from the side.

In fact, Miao Zhu and Zhou Yongqing also wanted to cry, and they couldn't say a word, you lack food, let's give it to you, don't slaughter the horse. One horse after another was slaughtered, and Song Jun was heartbroken outside.

But it can't be slaughtered, the outermost Xia army can't attack it, and immediately there is not only a lack of food for people, but also food for horses. People don't have to eat, and horses don't have to eat! Even after two more days of siege, there was no firewood for cooking, so he could only eat raw meat.

Outside them, it was Zhou Miao's army, and Chonggu also went back. He also wants to sit in Huanzhou. By the way, he commanded the defense of fortresses such as Ansai Wall. and spying on some "neutral" villages.

However, they were not under much pressure, although the Western Xia attacked from both sides, but at this time, the Song army had already established a strong camp, and learned from Li Sangou, forcibly let the prisoners of war stand under the fence wall with a shield to make a meat shield, and the Song army counterattacked in the back.

The awkward offensive and defensive battles of Western Xia began again.

The outermost part is the 20,000 army of Western Xia, but it is not a flat river. It is the terrain of the ridges, the Xia army has a lot of troops, the camp stretches for three or four miles, and the Song army is not a strong fortress in its hands, but the area that can be attacked is limited. In addition, the Song army had so many soldiers and horses to defend, no matter how Western Xia attacked, it would not pose the slightest threat to the Song camp.

Zhang Qi roughly explained the situation.

But this is only for now, if the general offensive starts, Xixia is red-eyed, and then the attack and defense will become fierce. When the time comes, where will it become a meat grinder like the three forks of the moe door, and the scale of this meat grinder is far better than the three forks of the moe door.

"That's good."

This is also the effect that Wang Ju wants. If there is no accident, there is still a day to come, and at this juncture, Wang Ju doesn't want any variables to happen.

"Wang Ju, Di Yong found the old man and took the initiative to admit his mistake." Han Jiang said.

"He was wrong."

"Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, good is great, let him lead an army, and make meritorious contributions."

Wang Ju is also at fault in this matter, from the beginning he distrusted Di Gao and the others, plus Di Yong and Gao Huaizhong were indeed a little contemptuous because of Wang Ju's young age, plus they were not Wang Ju's direct subordinates, Wang Ju then changed the battle plan "at will" because he didn't believe in dividing the troops to Miao first, and then to Qu Zhen, so that they could run around the three armies, which further aggravated Gao Huaizhong's dissatisfaction.

Wang Ju has no reflection now, even if he reflects, he doesn't regret it, let himself start again, do you have to use Di Yong and Gao Huaizhong, dare to bet? Still don't dare to bet.

Therefore, Wang Ju said resolutely: "Don't use suspicious people, don't use suspicious people." He is afraid of hardship, so let him stay in Gyeongju without having to endure any hardship. ”

Han Jiang couldn't intercede for Di Yong anymore, and when the news came, Han Jiang was also taken aback, and nearly two hundred people were all killed. What a murderous intent!

"Actually, that's fine," Zhang Qi said, Di Yong brought not a few people, the twenty-sixth battalion, even if ten battalions were divided into Miao Yu, and there were sixteen battalions of officers and soldiers, the strength was originally tight, could it be that so many people were used as reserves? Therefore, Wang Ju broke into Fengchuan overnight, killed Gao Huaizhong, idle Di Yong, and scattered and reorganized the officers and soldiers of the 16th Battalion, so that the officers and soldiers of the 16th Battalion could really come in handy.

As for what Di Yong will do in the future? Could it be for the sake of Di Yong's reputation that he risked the safety of more than 100,000 Song soldiers?

"Han Gong, everything is ready, only the south wind is owed. Soon, the biggest battle since the founding of our dynasty will begin, and the defeat of the northwest will be depressed from then on, and the victory will be the greatest victory of our dynasty. Now that the south wind is blowing, let's think more about business. Wang Ju said.

Actually, Di Yong can also play. But if you can fight, wouldn't Li Kezhong be able to fight, and why not let Wang Ju put him in Yele Town, and even change his plan for it, which is equivalent to being idle in disguise?

Personal martial arts are personal martial arts, which can be fought or not, and must also be able to command and have a certain degree of military accomplishment. Miao Zhu will definitely not be able to beat Li Kezhong in martial arts, but Wang Ju doesn't pay attention to Miao Zhu?

Wang Ju said again: "I don't know the general situation. ”

Enough is enough.

A bowl of water is uneven, just like Gao Min almost ran out of food in the three forks of Mengmen, and scolded Wang Ju's mother in his heart, but he always obeyed Wang Ju's orders.

Moreover, the stakes of this war are heavy, and no matter who it is, they should not be rash. Therefore, Han Jiang was finally speechless.

Another day passed.

The early morning sun shines on Tiandu Village, which is a picturesque place, but on this morning, the bloody battle tears the picture.

Watching Guo Cheng fight in the city, He Bin said with emotion: "There are people in the country, and I am also old." ”

The striker he recommended was Guo Cheng of the Deshun Army.

Because of the changes brought by Wang Ju, many brave generals have come to the fore in advance in this battle, of course, there are more generals who have come to the forefront, just because of ability, although Wang Ju has taken this stage, he still can't get out.

Under Guo Cheng's fighting, more and more Song troops attacked the head of the walled city of Tiandu.

Soon, under the desperate cover of Guo Cheng, the Song army finally opened the gate of the wall, and 5,000 cavalry poured in.

On the seventeenth day of the Battle of Gyeongju, Cai Ting took advantage of the unpreparedness of Western Xia and the emptiness of Tiandu Mountain's troops. Pai Hebin led 5,000 cavalry. Five thousand infantry. Guo became a pioneer general, and after nightfall, he attacked Shimen Gorge and Wuyan Gorge from Xiaodao, and allocated three Xixia camps in a row.

Of course, the credit has to be magnified.

In fact, because of the emptiness of troops, the Xia army left behind in these three small villages only had one or two hundred, two or three hundred people, plus the night attack of the Song army, they were defenseless at all, and almost no battle took place. It was taken by the Song army.

After early morning, 5,000 cavalry raided Tiandu Mountain and Tiandu Dazhai. The terrain here is very good, surrounded by mountains, and there are several small rivers running to the Yellow River, so it has always been the center of gravity of Western Xia, and later generations also became the county seat of Haiyuan.

Subsequently, the Song army quickly turned to attack the Western Xia Palace.

There is a very beautiful and absurd legend in this palace, Li Yuanhao married a woman who did not move for his son, but this did not move the family is a peerless enchantress, Li Yuanhao saw the Wu Yi clan on the night of his son's cave room, and was shocked and forcibly accepted it. The number is the new queen. In order to make it happy, he built a seven-hall palace in Tiandu Mountain. It is called extremely magnificent, the treasury and the buildings are all ready, and the Song Dynasty is called the Xixia Palace, which refers to these seven palaces.

It is in the south of the Tiandu Mountain Grottoes, just on the west side of the Tiandu Village. If divided according to later generations, Tiandu Mountain is divided into Xihua Mountain and Nanhua Mountain, Tiandu Mountain Grottoes are in Xihua Mountain, and the palace is in Nanhua Mountain. Of course, Cai Ting couldn't afford to invade these Western Xia temples further north.

But it is precisely because of this that the family did not move that a series of changes occurred in Western Xia, including the murder of Yeli begging, Li Yuanhao's father and son turned against each other and killed each other, first Ning Lingge was killed by Li Yuanhao, and Li Yuanhao was also cut off by Ning Lingge's nose, and died soon after. Then the Wuzang clan took the position, and then Li Liangzuo killed the Wuzang Pang, and there are still some later, one by one......

However, this palace has been preserved, and the nobles of Western Xia often come here in the summer to avoid the office, and with the development, some commercial mansions and workshops began to appear here, and even in spring and winter, some nobles came to play. Moreover, on the edge of Nanhua Mountain, there is the national pasture of Western Xia, and there are almost not many war horses now, and most of them went to Gyeongju with the army. But in addition to war horses, there are also a large number of black goats and yaks raised here.

Spring is gradually coming, although the temperature is still very cold, but when the weather is good, the ice and snow are already quietly melting, including the ice wall in the three forks of the Mengmen, and at noon, large clumps of water stains have also begun to appear.

Therefore, there are more nobles who come to hunt and play.

But this day became a disaster day for them, and under the wrapping of the Song army, few people escaped, and nine adults were captured. Later, 5,000 Song Dynasty infantry also arrived, and one by one they turned into dismantlers and porters.

Since it is the palace of Western Xia, and there are many nobles living here, how can there be less wealth?

Not only did there be a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but also, He Bin once again ordered Guo Cheng to kill the pasture next to him, forcibly drove away the herdsmen, and drove a large number of cattle and sheep.

It took most of the day to demolish and empty the palace buildings one by one, and the palace buildings that could not be moved were burned clean, and then the prisoners of war and livestock were taken back to the Zhenrong army.

The nearby Tangut people also got the news, but they had no soldiers in their hands, so they had to watch the Song army swagger back.

This battle is not only extremely symbolic, but also very rewarding, in addition to the soldiers privately swallowed, Cai Ting rewarded, the rest of the gold, silver and jewelry handed over to the imperial court, the discount is almost more than two million!

Of course, He Bin did not forget his business, took Tiandu Village in front, turned to attack the palace, and sent someone to inform Gyeongju in the back. However, he is still very grateful to Wang Ju, if it weren't for Wang Ju, he might have broken through Tiandu Village, not to mention the Xixia Palace.

Although Han Jiang learned of the plan in advance, after receiving the news, he was still envious.

"Conquer Tiandu Mountain."

Zhang Qi looked at his envious appearance and felt amused. However, Wang Ju also felt funny, because this was originally Zhang Qi's credit, but now it has become Cai Ting's credit, and next time Zhang Qi will not have a second palace to burn, and most of this plan is still from Zhang Qi's hands.

Now Wang Ju did not know that the officers and soldiers of Weizhou had received a lot of wealth.

However, this Tiandu Mountain and the Xixia Palace are second only to Xingqing Mansion and Lingzhou in Western Xia, which is equivalent to the Xia Prefecture of Western Xia. Or Chang'an and the Daimyo Mansion of the Song Dynasty. If Xiao Yanyan of the Liao State broke through the Daimyo's Mansion when he went south, what kind of shock would it bring? Or when Li Yuanhao's troops are under the city of Chang'an, what kind of shock will it bring to the Song Dynasty?

Its significance is equivalent to both.

Although it is only symbolic, it will indeed make the three armies of the Song Dynasty raise their eyebrows.

Regardless of this, Cai Ting successfully attacked Tiandu Mountain. It's time for the next step. The most critical step.

Wang Ju ordered some prisoners of war to be brought in. Even those nobles who took the initiative to confess and some high-status Western Xia generals, not only the nobles captured in Gyeongju City and Yele Town, but also some nobles and generals captured in Malingchuan yesterday, were also screened out, first taken to Huanzhou Prison, and then transported to Gyeongju City on horseback, and then extorted confessions overnight. Some people are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they also take the initiative to confess. After the officials made notes one by one. Get them to sign the pledge.

Bring them all with you now.

Wang Ju said: "A few days ago, you were captured, including Song Ji. ”

The prisoners of war captured yesterday did not know, but some of the prisoners of war captured in Gyeongju a few days ago knew about it, and they were arrested and imprisoned together with Song Ji in Gyeongju Prison, but later Wang Ju released Song Ji, and they didn't see it, but they all thought that they were beheaded by Wang Ju.

"I called Song Ji that day and told him three things. Your Western Xia sent troops to Gyeongju this time, and there were only three battles. There are many troops, and they are unexpected, and the support of the Liao State. But although you have a large number of troops, I also have more than 90,000 soldiers and horses in my hands, and I can even transfer more reinforcements from the surrounding areas one after another, and there is a geographical advantage, which includes the forts in front of you, and the familiarity with the terrain, just the familiarity with the terrain, can be 100,000 soldiers and horses. I'm sure you've all tasted it. ”

"It's unexpected, but you Tangut people have hit some Qiang people in Huanzhou, why can't you think of how many nobles in your Tangut are trading with our Song Dynasty merchants in the Song Dynasty? So we already knew about your marching plan, where would there be surprises? ”

"In the end, it is the reinforcements of the Liao State, you Li Yuanhao beat the Liao State so badly, and now they give 500,000 a year regardless of our Great Song Dynasty, and in turn, the Grand Duke selflessly disregards the previous hatred and sends troops to help you Western Xia, they are stupid! Or they promised to send troops, why, let you Western Xia attack our Great Song Dynasty regardless of the consequences, they Liao State is good to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Therefore, the Liao State will not send troops. ”

"These three are useless, can you Xixia still win? By the way, I have a couple of messages here. First, it seems that your Xia army's food and grass are getting more and more tight. Second, Dong Yu sent troops to Hexi. ”

"Impossible." A Xia general shouted, he was a prisoner of war captured in Yele Town, a general transferred from Hexi by Renduo Lingding, his family was in Hexi, Dong Yu invaded Hexi, could he not be nervous?

"This is the news that Qinzhou sent over with a fast horse." Wang Ju handed the express letter sent by Wang Shao to these people.

After they finished reading, Wang Ju said again: "I still have a piece of information here." ”

He also handed them the information sent by He Bin and circulated it.

After these people finished reading, Wang Ju said again: "There is another letter, by the way, I will show it to you." ”

That is, the manuscript of the letter written by Wang Ju to Liang Yi.

"Since the beginning of the war, your Western Xia has suffered heavy casualties, and our Great Song Dynasty has also suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Some of you Western Xia don't care about the life and death of the people, don't care about the survival of the country, and are blindly warlike, but can you really defeat our Song Dynasty? Therefore, I released Song Ji and asked him to persuade Liang Yi to bury him, hoping that he would withdraw his troops within two days, and I stamped the official seal on the letter to guarantee that I would not send any troops to pursue the withdrawal within these two days. But what about you Western Xia? Two days passed, not only did they not withdraw their troops, but the day before yesterday they drew 5,000 cavalry from Tiandu Mountain to attack Suyuan Village. As a result, all 5,000 cavalry were wiped out, and they were either killed in battle, or now they are prisoners of war in our dynasty. The Tiandu Mountain Dazhai and the marching army were also breached, and now they are burned to the ground by our army. This is the result that you Tangut people want? ”

A general asked hesitantly: "Your Song Dynasty really broke through Tiandu Village." ”

"Is this still fake? Who is the governor of Weizhou, Cai Ting! In the past few days, you have repeatedly violated Weizhou, and on that occasion did you triumphantly retreat from the boundary of Jingyuan Road? Originally, Tiandu Zhai had few troops, and Cai Ling Pang Shang drew 5,000 cavalry to come to Huanzhou, how could Cai Gong let go of such a good opportunity? ”

"It's over, it's over." The Xia general muttered.

"Okay, the reason why the official called you to come is the original promise, I promised that as long as you take the initiative to confess, I will release you back. Now I'm letting you go back. ”

"But when you return, your Lord will surely ask, remember, you must grit your teeth, and say that I intended to release you back, and let you take the word and retreat quickly, so that you will shake the hearts of the army, and nothing else. As for what you said and did in Gyeongju, I will keep it a secret for you. There are still the rest of the prisoners, and they will all be sent to my southern pit mines, and they will never want to return to Western Xia. But you leaked the secret yourself, and the Liang family is responsible, so you can't blame me. ”

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he deliberately withdrew, and let this large group of people make confessions by themselves, Wang Jucai came in, and said: "For your convenience to go back, those who came to Gyeongju with Liang Yongneng stand on the left, those who come to Gyeongju with Ren Duo Lingding stand on the right, and those who come with Liang Yibury stand in the middle." ”

Since the "good intentions" are released, then the good deeds should be done to the end.

Those who came to the Song Dynasty with Renduo Lingding, let them ride horses, send cavalry to guard, and send them out of Wujiao Town, near Huai'an Town, let them dismount and return to Renduo Lingding's tent. Those who came to Gyeongju with Liang Yi were sent to a place close to Rouyuan Village, and they were dismounted and returned to Liang Yi to bury the tent. Those who came with Liang Yongneng were sent to Liyuan Fort and asked them to return to Liang Yongneng's account.

It's that the Song Dynasty is too short of horses, otherwise Wang Ju kindly even gave them horses. (To be continued......) R1292